STEMCo

Stances Toward Education in Multilingual Contexts (STEMCo) aims at helping teachers accommodate linguistic diversity in their classrooms by taking an ethnographic look at how school communities locally conceptualize and treat multilingualism. The project provides a platform for teachers to reflect on their practice, learn from each other, and implement any opportune adjustments to their didactics. The goal of this project is to produce a teaching staff that is prepared to embrace and promote linguistic diversity, recognize and troubleshoot language-related issues as they arise, and be reflective about the effects of didactics on students’ identity development and communicative competence. Ultimately, the data collected during the research phase will become the foundation for a broader open-access professional development program for teachers of multilingual students throughout Europe.